. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. i 210 >/k 1749. H. mil: i A 1 * ! ! H ' k. here, we had received many favours. The go- vernor of the fort, Mr. Lufignarit a man of learning and of great poliiencfs, hea
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. i 210 >/k 1749. H. mil: i A 1 * ! ! H ' k. here, we had received many favours. The go- vernor of the fort, Mr. Lufignarit a man of learning and of great poliiencfs, heaped obliga- tions upon us, and treated us with as much ci- vihty as if we had been his relations. I had tiic Iionour of eating at his table during my /lay here, and my fervant was allowed 10 eat with his. We had our rooms, &c. to ourfelves, and at our departure the governor fupplied us with ample provifions for our journey to fort St, John, In (hort, he did us more favours than we could have expected from our own countrymen, and the officers wcie like wife particularly obliging to us. About eleven o'clock in the morning we fet out, with a fair wind. On both fides of the lake are high chains of mountains j with the diffe- rence which I have before obferved, that on the eaftern fliore is a low piece of ground covered with a foreft, extending between twelve and eighteen EngHJJo miles, after which the moun- tains begin ; and the country behind them be- longs to New England. This chain confifts of high mountains, which are to be confidered as the boundaries b^'tween the French and Englilh poffeffions in thefe parts of North America, On the wellern (hore of the lake, the mountains reach quite to the water fide. The lake at firfl is but a French mile broad, but always encreafes afterwards. The country is inhabited within a French mile of the fort, but after that, it is covered with a thick forefl. At the dilhnceof about ten French miles from fort St. Frederic, the lake is four fuc
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